Mityana Blog

Following a visit in February 2015 of a number of  Whitchurch Deanery teachers to Mityana (with British Council funding), a reciprocal trip took place in May with primary school teachers returning to visit Whitchurch. The February trip involved a teacher from […]

Seb will be running the London Marathon for Mityana Projects Trust in 31 days. Here is an update from him: “With just six weeks to go, training is starting to peak at around 40 miles per week now. The winter […]

The following pictures come from Fred Amanyire with the message, “Dear Dodie and Dick, These are a few pictures of activities taking place at Kabuwambo. Thank you.” The building is taking good shape!    

This is the great news to confirm that, having won a place in the ballot for the London Marathon, Whitchurch resident Seb Owen will run on behalf of the charity. He has already set up a donations page which we […]

The following news came through from Charles Mwebe at the start of April. “I greet you and all supporters of zira school children on behalf of zira school community. finishing on windows and doors and the urgent delivery of 20 desks […]

The following is the update from the St Mary Bourne 2014 team visiting Mityana, days 7 and 8. This time the words are provided by Dodie as the team have departed for the Murchison Falls National Park. Day 7 – Namutamba […]

Continuing reports from the St Mary Bourne 2014 visit – in their words. This is day 4 to day 6. Day 4 Ssekanyonyi (NB this is a new school to the Whitchurch/Mityana link) We woke up early today – it […]

Day 1: (In their words…) After having arrived at in Entebbe we arrived in the early hours of the morning. After having spent a night in Banana Village, when we woke in the morning before we had breakfast, some of […]

The 2014 Uganda team met for a final preparation visit this weekend. This involved a detailed talk through the trip as well as the packing of many spare suitcases with gifts for distribution to the various people and organisations we […]